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Gulfport (the beach), Harrison County, MS

10/20/19

Nonbreeding Black-bellied Plover	Black Skimmers and Royal Terns flying	Same birds, more spread out

Black Skimmers, one splashing	A few Black Skimmers on sand bar	Many Black Skimmers on sand bar

Fish bone	Creeping Indigo (Indigofera spicata). ID thanks to Su Kim!	Creeping Indigo (Indigofera spicata)	Hermit crab	Royal Tern in flight	Snowy Egret

10/19/19

Ruddy Turnstone	Shoreline facing west	Snowy Egret	White-winged Dove

Wildflowers	Might be a Marbled Godwit	View of an elusive bird	Lanceolate Fogfruit	More Lanceolate Fogfruit

Jellyfish in the Gulf of Mexico	Same jellyfish	Railroad Vine

10/17/19

Non-breeding Black-bellied Plover	Another Black-bellied Plover	Black-bellied Plover pair	Bird tracks

Black Skimmers early in the morning

Black Skimmers around noon	More Black Skimmers

Brown Pelicans	A small Crape Myrtle	Another small Crape Myrtle	Dune Camphorweed	Goldenrod

Goldenrod	Great Blue Heron	Same Great Blue Heron

Same Great Blue Heron	Same Great Blue Heron	Texas Lantana (Lantana urticoides), growing wild in a field	Marbled Godwit	Another Marbled Godwit

Monarch	Wild Poinsettia	Another Wild Poinsettia	Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae)	Sanderling and two Semipalmated Plovers

Sanderling	Another Sanderling	Sanderling asserting his area	Several squabbling Sanderlings

Semipalmated Plover	Another Semipalmated Plover	Same Semipalmated Plover with another	Aster seedheads, probably of the Dune Camphorweed	Spider flowers.  Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk.

Wildflowers	Willet

10/16/17

Great Blue Heron	Horseshoe crab	Killdeer	Same Killdeer	Marbled Godwit

Marbled Godwit	Semi-palmated Plover	Same Semi-palmated Plover

10/15/17

Ruddy Turnstone	Marbled Godwits and other birds, maybe Willets	Juvie Brown Pelican	Dog

Black Skimmers

10/14/17

Common Buckeye	Gulf Fritillary	Same Gulf Fritillary	Lilies	Little Yellow

Long-tailed Skipper

10/13/17

Semi-palmated Plover	Ruddy Turnstone	Marbled Godwit	Lobster/crayfish skeleton?

Great Blue Heron	Great Blue Heron	Black Skimmers

10/12/17

American Snout (at the beach)	Drooping Jersey Lily	Black Skimmer	Black Skimmer	Common Starlings

Black Skimmers and gulls in the process of moving to a new spot on the beach	Mostly Black Skimmers	Black Skimmers and gulls

Cloudless Sulphur on a Turk's Cap	Great Blue Heron and gulls	Gulf Fritillary	Another Gulf Fritillary on a Turk's Cap	Gulf Fritillary

Long-tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus)	Gulls and Marbled Godwit	Plover?	Semi-palmated Plover

Snowy Egret flushing out at least four and maybe six fish	Same Snowy Egret flushing out three fish	Flying terns

Terns, Black Skimmer, gulls and a a large bird that looks like a Black Skimmer/gull hybrid	Terns and a few Black Skimmers moving

Verbena on grass median	White Winged Dove

10/11/17

Huge cargo ship headed for the port	Scarlet-bodied Wasp Moth (Cosmosoma myrodora), which had flown inside	Gulf Fritillary on a Firewheel flower	Gulf Fritillary on asters	Gulf Fritillary on another Firewheel

White Pelicans, which never returned after this evening

10/18/15

Common Buckeye	Willet	Mole cricket nymph, rescued from street

10/18/15

Killdeer	Diving Forster's Tern	Ruddy Turnstone	Gulf Fritillary	Forster's Tern

10/17/15

Sunrise	Blue Jay

Jones Park 10/16/15

The marina, with a lighthouse with ladder access

10/15/15

Black Skimmers	Black Skimmers on a sand bar	Hermit crab	Sanderling

Royal Terns, a Black Skimmer and a gull	Some local color	Felix at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center	Post-mating Common Green Darner pair

10/15/15

Sunset	Forster's Terns	Gull	Black Skimmer

Variegated Meadowhawk	Black Skimmers and Bonaparte's Gulls against Biloxi backdrop	Black Skimmers flying over the ocean	Black Skimmers disturbed on the beach: a man with a dog walked through the middle of them.	Black Skimmers resting on the beach

False Garlic	Great Blue Heron	Ribbons	Little Yellow	Verbena

10/20/13

Plant bug (Polymerus basalis).  ID thanks to Yurika Alexander.	Moonflower (Ipomea alba)	Cuban Brown Anole	Sunset scene

Jersey Lilies	Jersey Lilies	Sanderling

10/17/13

Black Skimmer	Black Skimmers flying	Willet, plover and Sanderling.  Plover may be nonbreeding Black-bellied.	Forster's Tern

Sanderlings	Trailing Wild Bean flowers	Trailing Wild Bean showing bean pod	Another pea family plant

Hermit crab	Common Buckeye, but a very fast flyer

10/17/10

Black Skimmer in flight, with unequal upper and lower bill sizes clearly visible	Black Skimmers, Royal Terns and gulls	Black Skimmers and other birds

Black Skimmer in flight, with tail feathers clearly visible	Big bird footprint, with large feather for size comparison	Maybe the bird that made the big footprint.  Definitely not a Great Blue Heron.

10/16/10

Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole)

10/15/10

Black Skimmer flying over gulls	Black Skimmer doing "skimming," i.e., scooping prey from the water with its lower beak	Skimming by another Black Skimmer	Semipalmated Plover

10/14/10

Black Skimmers in flight	Gulfport sunset	Group of Black Skimmers flying

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